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_AceLewis | 207 points | Nov 16 2017 09:53:55

[META] Comments containing mega.nz links are now shadowbanned on Reddit (Crosspost r/MEGA) | Megalinks MegaDB [META] Comments containing mega.nz links are now shadowbanned on Reddit (Crosspost r/MEGA)

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""" Comments containing mega links are now shadowbanned on Reddit, if you post a comment containing one it will only show up to you and no one else. You can verify this by posting a comment on this post with a mega link (mega.co.nz currently works only .nz is banned) then navigating to this post in a different browser or in incognito mode, you will not see you comment. You can view the comment if you go to it via a permalink (and if you view the thread after seeing the permalink) but it is not visible to other people in any other circumstance. Also an example, my comment is not showing up but if you go directly to it you can see it: https://www.reddit.com/r/MEGA/comments/7dbac1/comments_containing_meganz_links_are_now/dpwg7sl/ """

https://www.reddit.com/r/MEGA/comments/7dbac1/comments_containing_meganz_links_are_now/

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[-] John_Yuki | 44 points | Nov 16 2017 13:03:16

Can confirm they are spam filtered. I'm a moderator on /r/footballmanagergames, and I've had a few people post mega.nz links recently that were automatically spam filtered, whereas they never have been before. This makes them invisible to other people unless I manually approve the comment/post that the link was in. The links also don't appear in my modqueue, so unless I stumble upon them by chance, I won't ever know that they have been spam filtered.

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[-] sebastian404 | 16 points | Nov 16 2017 14:51:14

I had that similar problem in one of my subreddits with links to AliExpress.

We had to set up an AutoModerator rule that auto approved them, tho it's a bit sketchy that we have to do that

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[-] MrTattyBojangles | 22 points | Nov 16 2017 18:27:06

This is what base64 is for, right?

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[-] TJHookerWithAPenis | 16 points | Nov 16 2017 10:07:30

my comment is not showing up but if you go directly to it you can see it

Nope. It said there was 1 comment but didn't display it. It does not appear in your comment history either.

Edit: But it doesn't matter. We don't need a clickable link.

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[-] _AceLewis | 7 points | Nov 16 2017 10:34:47

You are right, in my testing I could go to permalinks but I must have been logged into the other browser or something, possibly it could also be IP address based.

Either way you can test it for yourself, reddit is censoring comments with mega links in them.

This is what I can see when logged in: https://i.imgur.com/EFceUgD.png

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[-] TJHookerWithAPenis | 3 points | Nov 16 2017 10:38:08

Strangely enough, I can see it on your comment history now. Weird.

Thanks for the heads up.

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[-] Alacritous | 1 points | Nov 16 2017 17:14:09

If you have chrome just right click on permalink and click open in incognito window.

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[-] _AceLewis | 1 points | Nov 16 2017 18:29:02

I am constantly in Incognito, I only use non incognito for Facebook (I hardly use that), email and youtube. The shadow ban could be IP based, I am not on the IP I posted before so I can't do any other checks other than the fact that I can't see the post via permalink now.

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[-] iPhunwa2 | 10 points | Nov 16 2017 13:47:33

Has this not been the case for a while? Similarly links from ZippyShare and Openload among others are also not visible unless manually approved.

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[-] RunDNA | 1 points | Nov 20 2017 01:02:28

Yeah, it's been this way since at least June 2016, when I had to set up Automod to automatically approve them in a sub I moderate. It probably started even earlier than that.

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[-] [deleted] | 10 points | Nov 16 2017 21:35:43

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[-] ASentientBot | 3 points | Nov 26 2017 19:59:11

Wait, I can see this...?

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[-] JeremyHafford | 7 points | Nov 16 2017 12:18:21

Query: So in the requests threads, if I fulfill their request, I can't provide the link in a reply? Or would that be an exception?

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[-] elitenls | 38 points | Nov 16 2017 16:10:24

Just base64 the whole damn thing and paste the gibberish. Everyone should be obfuscating links anyway. 🙂

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[-] ZubinB | 19 points | Nov 16 2017 12:23:54

You can as long as you disguise it (remove the .nz for example as it's obvious) or use services like pastebin/links.snahp.it

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[-] sirin3 | 12 points | Nov 16 2017 15:11:49

Just use only the #!.. part

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[-] _AceLewis | 6 points | Nov 16 2017 13:35:19

You just should not include the link, it is not subreddit specific so there is no exception possible.

Currently you can put the .co.nz domain as that will redirect to the correct domain but it is probably best to "protect" the link via other methods. That also makes it harder to scrape them.

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[-] TotesMessenger | 5 points | Nov 16 2017 13:48:40

I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:

 ^(If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads.) ^(Info ^/ ^Contact)

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[-] Dingus_leMingus | 3 points | Nov 16 2017 19:15:44

Just post the part of the link starting with !, then it will be fine.

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[-] age_of_cage | 2 points | Nov 16 2017 16:38:25

I assumed this was known here, it's been this way for a couple months at least.

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[-] Alacritous | 2 points | Nov 16 2017 17:12:44

Can't you set a rule in automod to automatically approve them right away?

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[-] thevodkaboy | 1 points | Nov 16 2017 17:05:59

kinda figured this would happen soon. i've opted to use Base64. less obvious.

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[-] YouRik97 | 1 points | Nov 16 2017 20:29:17

Great! let's all post adf.ly links that redirect to the actual mega link in the future!

/s

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[-] [deleted] | 1 points | Nov 16 2017 21:19:14

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[-] _AceLewis | 3 points | Nov 16 2017 21:23:04

That is not a link, it needs the http or https part to be clickable.

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[-] [deleted] | 2 points | Nov 16 2017 21:34:25

so we could just delete the http right?

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[-] [deleted] | 1 points | Nov 16 2017 21:35:30

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[-] Frankly_George | 1 points | Nov 17 2017 03:34:15

<a href="/u/UseForThrowAwayStuff">UseForThrowAwayStuff</a> | Megalinks MegaDB UseForThrowAwayStuff posted:

what was the point of shadowbanning those links again?

Least amount of effort possible that buys the admins time because the complaint has been "solved" while not actually inconveniencing the site's users in any real appreciable manner.

The MAFIAA lawyers get to earn their bonus for shutting down that horrible site, the admins can log a standing issue as being fixed with the knowledge of job security because whack-a-mole is the easiest make work ever, we keep on passing around base64 output without thinking about it and everyone gets what they want.

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[-] [deleted] | 1 points | Nov 17 2017 03:38:33

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[-] Frankly_George | 3 points | Nov 17 2017 03:44:49

<a href="/u/UseForThrowAwayStuff">UseForThrowAwayStuff</a> | Megalinks MegaDB UseForThrowAwayStuff posted:

what complaint, that the subreddit shared links to a site that could be used to host illegal content?

Yup.

I can see the admin's reply now:

Reddit Admin: | Megalinks MegaDB Reddit Admin: Oh no, that can't be happening--we have explicitly blocked links of those kind from our website.

Shill: | Megalinks MegaDB Shill: No you didn't! See they're still sharing links they just removed the http:// from the link!

Reddit Admin: | Megalinks MegaDB Reddit Admin: Huh. That sounds like something you should open a new ticket for...

Shill: | Megalinks MegaDB Shill: [thinking] Yay! New billables!

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[-] ScyllaHide | 1 points | Nov 16 2017 21:21:09

base decode is fine for me or any linkcryptor, as long as i see all links.

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[-] generalecchi | -4 points | Nov 16 2017 18:07:54

reddit admin cucks

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